Morevna Project

Almost six months passed by since the last snapshot – half of a year. You won’t see much changes in this snapshot – few shots drawn, new lightning model for the battle episodes…

What have been really done during that period? The best way to answer the question is to watch the posts on the blogs between those two distant, but so similar snapshots. In short – it’s a setting infrastructure. Git, wiki, feeds, documentation… All those things necessary for successful collaboration. Workflow polishing, characters development… As you see from the project status post the Demo is still a long way to go. Do we wanna go the whole way now? Sure, we still do.

Missing Demo snapshots? Wondering what exact project status is? Check this out:

Ah, my bad, changes, changes again. ^_^” During the past months Ivan character have been heavily reworked. And yeah, some parts of the Demo need to be corrected. But… this is The Path. I promise this is the last significant change in the characters appearance. Believe me. Or at least try to. ^___^

Synfig Studio packages have been updated. Please grab them from the packages page.

Major reasons to upgrade:

• Integrated support for “magick++” render target.

More info:

The “magick++” render target could be used for rendering gifs. During the discussions on WIPs we often use gif files to quickly show the animation previews. Gif files are also good when we want to integrate small pieces of animation as a part of some tutorial page for illustration purposes. The advantage of usage “magick++” render target over standart “gif” render target is the significant difference in speed and resulting image size.

See also: Synfig render options.

Here’s a video about merging two similar images with different size/rotation in Synfig Studio. One image contains corrections for another, so it’s important to properly combine them together. Synfig has a few tricks allowing to handle this task with grace.

merging-image-corrections-with-synfig.ogv (27 Mb)